May 14, 2015
10:27 am JST

May 14, 2015
10:29 am JST

Get serious. I use Skype with people in many countries, and often the audio quality is so crappy, and so many words get lost that it is doubtful a machine would be able to make out what it is supposed to translate. Of course, Microsoft owns Skype, so that pretty much says it all. Microsoft should first focus on getting Skype to do its current tasks, but that would not be Microsoft style.

May 14, 2015
11:59 pm JST

Get serious. I use Skype with people in many countries, and often the audio quality is so crappy, and so many words get lost that it is doubtful a machine would be able to make out what it is supposed to translate. Of course, Microsoft owns Skype, so that pretty much says it all. Microsoft should first focus on getting Skype to do its current tasks, but that would not be Microsoft style.

May 15, 2015
12:02 am JST

May 15, 2015
12:11 am JST

Translators help if the level of the foreign-language knowledge is enough to understand the conversation context. Otherwise it is completely useless and prone to misunderstandings. Even professional translators sometimes don´t know what they are talking about, let alone a dumb computer.